• Paul Wagner, Washington State DOT, ICOET 2009 Conference Chair
• James Martin, PE, Associate Director, Center for Transportation and the Environment
• Thomas Sorel, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Don Ness, Mayor of Duluth

Conference Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

• Paul Wagner, Washington State DOT, ICOET 2009 Conference Chair

Session 110 (Plenary)
Monday
9:30-10:30 AM

• Carol Adkins, Acting Director, Office of Project Development and Environmental Review, FHWA, Washington, DC
• Lars Nilsson, Environmental Director, National Road Administration, Sweden
• Thomas Duffus, Upper Midwest Director, The Conservation Fund, Duluth, MN

• Integrating Conservation and Long-Range Transportation Planning Using a Strategic Assessment Framework (Craig Casper, Pikes Peak Area COG, Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
• Looking to the Future with Retrofit Options from Lessons Learned (Bruce Eilerts, Arizona DOT Office of Environmental Services, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
• Long Point World Biosphere Reserve Causeway Improvement Plan, Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada: Benefits for Wildlife Movement, Species at Risk, Traffic, and Pedestrian Safety (Geoffrey Gartshore, Ecoplans Limited, Ontario, Canada)

Session131 (Concurrent)
Monday
2:00-3:30 PM

• How Will Climate Change Affect the Design and Management of the Highways Agency Soft Estate? (Lucia Collinwood, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Cardiff, Wales)
• The FHWA Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program: Economics, Environment and Policy (Stephen Earsom, FHWA, Washington DC, USA)
• Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Urban Flooding: Implications for Transportation Infrastructure and Travel Disruption (Heejun Chang, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA)
• Washington State Department of Transportation Interim Approach to Project-Level Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Evaluations For Transportation Projects (Tim Sexton, Washington State DOT, Seattle, WA, USA)

Session 132 (Concurrent)
Monday
2:00-3:30 PM

• Road Watch in Pass: Web-based Citizen Involvement in Wildlife Data Collection (Tracy Lee and Danah Duke, Miistakis Institute for the Rockies, Alberta, Canada)
• Wildlife Tunnels Under a Busy, Suburban Boston Roadway (Lydia Rogers, Wildlife Passages Task Force, Concord, MA, USA)
• Motorists as Citizen Scientists: The Benefits of a Wildlife Reporting Website (Angela Kociolek, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• Can Citizen Science Represent Wildlife Activity Along Highways? Validating a Monitoring Program (Kylie Paul, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA)

Session 141 (Concurrent)
Monday
4:00-5:30 PM

• Interagency Partnering for the Development of Stream Crossing Standards in New York State (Brandon Greco and Debra Nelson, New York State DOT, Albany, NY, USA)
• Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation and the US Fish And Wildlife Service’s Information, Planning, and Consultation (IPaC) System (Michael Horton, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Arlington, VA, USA)
• Intercounty Connector (ICC): Environmental Compliance Management Using Integrated Technologies to Provide Context Sensitive Solutions (Holly Shipley, KCI Technologies, Inc., Sparks, MD, USA)

Session 142 (Concurrent)
Monday
4:00-5:30 PM

• Traffic Volume as a Primary Road Characteristic Impacting Wildlife: A Model for Land Use and Transportation Planning (Barbara Charry, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME, USA)
• Integrating Environmental Concerns with the Planning and Construction of the South Extension of Interstate 355 into Will County, Illinois (Angela LaPorte and Brian Smith, AECOM, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Ecological Effects of Road Construction on Regional Ecosystem (Shyh-Chyang Lin, National Kinmen Institute of Technology, Kinmen, Taiwan)
• Incorporating Road-Mortality Hotspot Modeling and Connectivity Analyses Into Road Mitigation Planning in Ontario, Canada (Kari Gunson, Ontario Road Ecology Group, Ontario, Canada)

Session 143 (Concurrent)
Monday
4:00-5:30 PM

• Use of Habitat Credit Trading as a Mitigation Tool for Transportation Projects: A FHWA Pilot Project in Arkansas (Andrew Peck, Department of Environmental Sciences, Arkansas State University, AR, USA)
• Regional Advance Mitigation Planning: A Pilot Study Integrating Multi-agency Mitigation Needs and Actions Within a Comprehensive Ecological Framework (Patrick Huber, University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
• Status of Mitigation Banking for Transportation in the Upper Midwest (Thomas Mings, US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul, MN, USA)

Session 211 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
8:30-10:00 AM

• California Essential Habitat Connectivity Planning (Amy Pettler, Caltrans, Sacramento, CA, USA)
• Establishing the Legacy Nature Preserve Tthrough Collaborative Planning and Adaptive Management (Michael Perkins, HDR, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
• Nebraska Department of Road’s Plan for the Roadside Environment (Arthur Thompson, Nebraska Department of Roads, Lincoln, NE, USA)
• Similar Impacts, Similar Solutions? The Effects of Transport Infrastructure on Outdoor Recreation and Wildlife (Jan Olof Helldin, Swedish Biodiversity Centre, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)

Session 212 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
8:30-10:00 AM

• Road Infrastructure and Stream Habitat Connectivity: Research Tools to Aid Management and Conservation Plans in a Changing Environment (Keith Nislow, US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Amherst, MA, USA)
• MassHighway Guidance Handbook: Design of Bridges and Culverts for Wildlife Passage (David Nyman, Comprehensive Environmental Inc., Milford, MA, USA)
• Do Bridges Affect Migrating Juvenile Salmon: Tracking Juvenile Salmon and Predator Fish Movements and Habitat Use Near the SR 520 Bridge in Lake Washington (Philip Bloch, Washington State DOT, Seattle, WA, USA)
• Are Non-Wildlife Underpasses Effective Passages for Wildlife? (Andreas Seiler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)

Session 213 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
8:30-10:00 AM

• Are We There Yet? A Case for Spatially Explicit Linkage Modeling for Integrative Conservation Planning (Julia Kintsch, ECO-resolutions, LLC, Denver, CO, USA)
• Monitoring Wildlife Overpass Use by Amphibians – Do Artificially Maintained Humid Conditions Enhance Crossing Rates? (Edgar Van der Grift, Alterra Wageningen UR, Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• New Concepts in Wildlife Habitat Linkage Assessments To Focus Mitigation Measures and Reduce Wildlife Crossing Costs (Bill Ruediger, Wildlife Consulting Resources, Missoula, MT, USA)
• Washington's Habitat Connectivity Highway Retrofit Initiative (Kelly McAllister, Washington State DOT, Olympia, WA, USA)

Session 221 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
10:30 AM - Noon

• Idaho Statewide Wildlife / Transportation Database (Brent Inghram, FHWA Idaho Division, Boise, ID, and Gregg Servheen, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Boise, ID, USA)
• Judd Road Connector: Lessons Learned in Ecological Mitigation – Wildlife Crossings, Habitat Preservation, Wetlands and More (Ed Frantz, New York State DOT, Utica, NY, USA)
• Avian Protection Plan for the Nebraska Department of Roads (Eric Zach, Nebraska Department of Roads, Lincoln, NE, and Dionne Gioia, US Dept of Agriculture APHIS Wildlife Services, Union, NE, USA)
• How Do Major Roads Affect Barn Owls? Distribution, Space Use, Food Source and Mortality (Joana Sousa, Centro Biologia Ambiental, Lisboa, Portugal)

Session 222 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
10:30 AM - Noon

• The Proposed I-69 Crossing of the Ouachita River and Associated Wetlands In Southern Arkansas: A Comparison of the Charleston Method vs. West Gulf Coastal Plains Hydrogeomorphic Method to Determine Mitigation Requirements (Henry W. Langston, Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, Little Rock, AR, USA)
• Wetland Mitigation in Abandoned Gravel Pits – Creating Fresh Meadow and Shrub Swamp (Kurt Johnson, University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth, MN, USA)
• Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance (RSC) as an Integrated Approach to Sustainable Stormwater Planning on Linear Projects (Joe Berg, Biohabitats, Inc., Baltimore MD, USA)
• Oregon DOT Stormwater Treatment and Management Program: A Framework for Adapting to Changing Pollutants, Regulations, and Practices (Zak Toledo, HDR, Inc., Salem, OR, USA)

Session 223 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
10:30 AM - Noon

• Arboreal Mammals Use an Aerial Rope Bridge to Cross a Major Highway (Rodney van der Ree, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Victoria, Australia)
• Using Global Positioning System Technology to Determine Wildlife Crossing Structure Placement and Evaluating Their Success in Arizona (Jeffrey Gagnon, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
• Bozeman Pass Wildlife Pre-and Post-Fence Monitoring Project (April Craighead, Craighead Environmental Research Institute, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• Predictive Models of Herpetofauna Road Mortality Hotspots in Extensive Road Networks: Three Approaches and a General Procedure for Creating Hotspot Models  (Tom Langen, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA)

Session 231 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
1:30-3:00 PM

• Evaluation of a Rapid Assessment Protocol to Assess Road-Stream Crossings for Aquatic Organism Passage (Scott Jackson, UMass Department of Natural Resources Conservation, Amherst, MA, USA)
• Where the River Meets the Road: How Washington State is Providing Habitat While Protecting Highways (Paul J. Wagner, Washington State DOT, Olympia, WA, USA)
• Effective Mitigation: The Cumulative Impact of Climate Change on Transportation Network and Its Implications on Aquatic Biodiversity of Ganges Headwaters, Garhwal Himalayas (Ramesh C. Sharma, Departmental of Environmental Sciences, H.N.B.Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, India)
• Adapting Relationships for Agencies and Institutions: The I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project's Collaborative Approach to Identifying a Preferred Alternative and Mitigation Strategy (Jason Smith, Washington State DOT, Yakima, WA, USA)

Session 232 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
1:30-3:00 PM

• Reducing Road-Based Habitat Fragmentation: An Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene c. carolina) Case Study (Susan Hagood, The Humane Society of the US, Washington DC, USA)
• Re-evaluating the Needs for Animal Passages in Israel: Towards a Long-term Monitoring Scheme (Tamar Achiron-Frumkin, Ecological and Environmental Advisors, Israel)
• Restoring Ecological Networks Across Transport Corridors in Bulgaria (Edgar Van der Grift and Vanya Simeonova, Alterra Wageningen UR, Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Development and Utilization of a Regional Invasive Plant Species Database at the New York State Department of Transportation (Christine Colley, New York State DOT, Buffalo, NY, USA)

Session 233 (Concurrent)
Tuesday
1:30-3:00 PM

• Using Specialized Tunnels to Reduce Highway Mortality of Amphibians (Cyndi Smith and Katie Pagnucco, Parks Canada – Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada)
• A Quantitative Comparison of the Reliability of Animal Detections Systems and Recommended Requirements for System Reliability (Marcel Huijser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• Evaluation of an Animal-Activated Highway Crosswalk Integrated with Retrofit Fencing Applications (Norris Dodd, AZTEC Engineering, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
• Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures to Reduce Road Mortality in the Netherlands: Badger Meles meles  (Hans Bekker, Rijkswaterstaat Centre for Traffic and Navigation, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands)

• Dwayne Stenlund, Erosion Control Specialist, Minnesota DOT
• Scott Bradley, Director of Context Sensitive Solutions, Minnesota DOT
• Paul Sundberg, Manager, Gooseberry Falls State Park, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Session 411 (Concurrent)
Thursday
8:30-10:00 AM

• Cost Justification and Examples of Cost-Benefit Analyses of Mitigation Measures Aimed at Reducing Collisions With Large Ungulates in the United States and Canada (Marcel Huijser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• An Analysis of the Efficacy and Comparative Costs of Using Flow Devices to Resolve Conflicts with North American Beavers Along Roadways in the Coastal Plain of Virginia (Stephanie Boyles, Christopher Newport University, Portsmouth, VA, USA)
• Prioritizing Road Crossing Improvement to Restore Stream Connectivity for Stream-Resident Fish (Matthew Diebel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)

Session 412 (Concurrent)
Thursday
8:30-10:00 AM

• Multi-Scale Habitat-Resistance Models for Predicting Road Mortality “Hotspots” for Reptiles and Amphibians (David Patrick, Paul Smith’s College, Paul Smiths, NY and Viorel Popescu, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA)
• Integrating Ecosystem Needs with Transportation Facility Design: Design Engineering Challenges of the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project (Randall Giles, Washington State DOT, Yakima, WA, USA)
• A Summary of the Wildlife Linkage and Highway Safety Assessment: A Prioritization and Planning Tool For Western Montana (Elizabeth Williamson and Dylan Taylor, American Wildlands, Bozeman, MT, USA)
• Using Noninvasive Genetic Sampling Methods to Assess the Value of Wildlife Crossings for Black and Grizzly Bear Populations in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada (Michael Sawaya, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)

Session 421 (Concurrent)
Thursday
10:30 AM-Noon

• The Ecological Implications of Cured-in-Place Pipe Rehabilitation Technology (Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
• Managing an Unpredicted and Unexpected Large Scale Amphibian Migration: Applying Hungarian Experience and Knowledge to Protect Western Toads on a British Columbia Highway (Leonard Sielecki, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
• Down the Drain: How to Avoid Trapping Amphibians in Road and Sewer Drainage Systems – Designing Fauna Friendly Drainage Systems and Other Protective Measures (Bruno Schelbert, Departement Construction, Traffic and Environment, Aarau, Switzerland)
• "Sustainable Highway Construction" is NOT an Oxymoron (Gary Demich, H.W. Lochner, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA)

Session 422 (Concurrent)
Thursday
10:30 AM-Noon

• Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Transportation Infrastructure Projects in a Changing Environment (Bethaney Bacher-Gresock, FHWA, Washington DC and Julianne Schwarzer, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA, USA)
• MARC's Eco-Logical Project: A Regional Approach to Linking Environmental and Transportation Planning (Lisa Pool and Tom Jacobs, Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, MO, USA)
• Developing and Piloting an Eco-Logical Approach to Transportation Project Delivery in Montana (Deborah Wambach, Montana DOT, and Scott Jackson, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Helena, MT, USA)
• Texas Ecological Assessment Protocol (TEAP): Eco-Logical information for Transportation Planning (Sharon Osowski, US Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, TX, USA)

AD – Adapting Relationships for Agencies and Institutions

AD-01:  Wildlife Mortality Surveys on 1014km of Highways in Portugal (2002-2007): Results and Limitations of the Procedures (Clara Grilo, Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Dept Biologia Animal, Lisbon, Portugal)

AD-02:  Vegetation Management Memorandum of Understanding between Minnesota Department of Transportation and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Nancy Schuldt, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Cloquet, MN, USA)

AD-03:  Oregon DOT's OTIA III Bridge Program: Five Years of Adapting for Environmental Stewardship (Zak Toledo, HDR, Inc., Salem, OR, USA)

PL – Planning for Change

PL-01:  Fragmentation of China’s Landscape by Roads and Urban Areas (Taian Li, Life Science School, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, PR of China, and Alison Berry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA)

PL-02:  Integrating Biodiversity and Infrastructure Considerations to Prioritize Transportation Projects in the Taunton River Watershed, Massachusetts (Alison Bowden, The Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA)

PL-03:  Ecological Survey Approaches in a Changing World (Patricia Cramer, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA)

PL-04:  New FHWA Manuals for Mitigation Measures Aimed at Reducing Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions and Providing Safe Crossing Opportunities for Wildlife (Marcel Huijser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)

PL-05:  A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Barrier Effects to Wildlife Populations Using Variable Responses to Traffic Volume (Sandra Jacobson, US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Bend, OR, USA)

PL-06:  Peregrine Falcons Utilize a Busy Highway Corridor in East-Central Alaska (W.N. Johnson, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Tok, AK, USA)

PL-07:  Comparing Efforts to Incorporate Green Streets Practices into the Transportation Planning Process in North Carolina (Donald Kostelec, The Louis Berger Group, Inc., Asheville, NC, USA)

PL-08:  Community-based Environmental Planning: Preventing Urban Encroachment on a Lagoon Catchment Area (Erin Roger, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

PL-09:  Planning for Change: WSDOT's Adaptive Approach to Communicating About the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project with Diverse Groups (Jason Smith, Washington State DOT, Yakima, WA, USA)

PL-10:  New French Environmental Policy and Linear Infrastructures: The Implementation of the National Ecological Network – The "Green And Blue Belt" (Sabine Bielsa, MEEDDAT :  SETRA, Bagneux, Paris, France)

MO – Ecological Considerations for Maintenance and Operations

MO-01:  Motorways and Bird Traffic Casualties: Carrions Censuses and Scavenging Bias (Eric Guinard, Centre d'Etudes Techniques de l'Equipement du Sud-Ouest, Saint-Medard-En-Jalles, Aquitaine, France)

MO-02:  Roadside Verges in Intensive Agrarian Landscapes: A Positive Impact on Biodiversity to be Taken Into Account in Roadside Management (Sabine Bielsa, MEEDDAT :  SETRA, Bagneux, Paris, France)

MO-03:  Steep Cut Slope Composting: Field Trials and Evaluation (Robert Ament, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)

MO-04:  Monitoring and Enhancing Wildlife Movement Across Freeways in Urban Southern California (Barbara Marquez and Gregg Erickson, California DOT, and Jeff Sikich, National Park Service, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)

MO-05:  Occurrence of Road and Traffic Associated Heavy Metals in Soil Sediments in Southern New Mexico (Kevin Floyd, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA)

MO-06:  Inter-Species Associations at Wildlife-Crossing Structures: An Analysis of Long-Term and Daily Patterns of Wildlife Movement along the Trans-Canada Highway, Banff National Park, Alberta (Adam Ford, Banff Wildlife Crossings Project, Banff, Alberta, Canada)

MO-07:  Evaluation of Mitigation Measures for Highway Bird Road-kill (Yung-Hui Hsu, Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Taipei, Taiwan)

MO-08:  The Importance of Pre-Construction Data for Planning and Evaluating Wildlife Crossing Structures (Paula MacKay, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Ellensburg, WA, USA)

MO-09:  Do Forest Roads Influence Wildfire Boundary Locations? (Ganapathy Narayanaraj, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA)

MO-10:  Effect of the Sampling Effort upon the Richness of Roadkill Species in the South of Brazil (Clarissa A. Rosa and Alex Bager, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

MO-11:  Structure, Function, and Ecosystem Services of Interstate Forests in Louisville, Kentucky (Tara Trammell, Dept. of Biology, University of Louisville, KY, USA)

MO-12:  Ecological Considerations for the Management of Non-native Invasive Species during the Maintenance and Operation of National Road Schemes in Ireland (Rosalyn Thompson and Lisa Dolan, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

ID – Integrating Ecosystem Needs with Transportation Facility Design

ID-01:  The Integration of Ecosystems Needs and Transportation Facility Design – The Irish Historical Context (Lisa Dolan, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

ID-02:  Effect of Culvert Barriers on Topeka Shiner and Other Warm Water Fish Species in South Dakota (Matt Blank, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)

ID-03:  The Effectiveness of Vertebrate Passage and Prevention Structures: A Study of Boeckman Road in Wilsonville (Leslie Bliss-Ketchum, Portland State University Environmental Science & Mangement Dept., Portland, OR, USA)

ID-04:  Designing New Highways to Reverse Habitat Connectivity Loss due to Old Highways and Land Use Change: A Case Study in Nayarit, Mexico (Norma Fernández Buces, Grupo SELOME SA de CV Environmental Consultants, México City, México)

ID-05:  Oostvaarderswold Corridor: Designing for Natural Systems Within the Human Matrix (Cynthia Lapp, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)

ID-06:  Proposed Crossing Design to Achieve Road Permeability for Multiple Species along a Riparian/Upland Corridor in Southern California (Dana Morin, EDAW, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA)

ID-07:  Bolinas Lagoon: An Incremental Improvement (Charles Morton, Caltrans, Oakland, CA, USA)

ID-08:  Stream Simulation: An Ecological Approach to Providing Passage for Aquatic Organisms at Road-Stream Crossings (Interactive Display) (Gregory Napper, US Forest Service, San Dimas, CA, USA)

ID-09:  A Comprehensive Wildlife Crossing Mitigation Approach in Riverside County, California (Brock Ortega, Dudek Engineering + Environmental, Encinitas, CA, USA)

ID-10:  Highways Permeability for Carnivores in Portugal: Water-Effect and Effectiveness of Dry Ledges (Dyana Reto, Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Lisbon, Portugal)

ID-11:  Wildlife-Friendly Erosion Control Matting: The Standard for Vermont (Chris Slesar, Vermont Agency of Transportation, Montpelier, VT, USA)

ID-12:  Getting There: The Role of Wildlife Crossing Structures in Restoring Terrestrial Habitat Connectivity Across Roads (Dawn Tanner, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA)

ID-13:  Wildlife Ecology for Dummies: Design Elements of Wildlife Crossing Structures – A Literature Review (Stephen Tonjes, Florida DOT, DeLand, FL, USA)

ID-14:  Permeability of Linear Features to the Movements of Songbirds in an Urban Landscape (Marie Tremblay, University of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

ID-15:  Tibetan Antelopes are Behaviorally Adapting to the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and Railway (Yun Wang, China Academy of Transportation Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R.China)

ID-16:  ODOT’s Biology and Wetland Monitoring: An Improved Approach to Data Collection and Reporting (Bob Carson, Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc., Portland, OR, USA)

TT – Innovative Tools and Techniques

TT-01:  Identifying Wildlife Linkages and Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Hot Spots on Oregon Highways (Bob Carson, Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc., Portland, OR, USA)

TT-02:  Web-BA: An Innovative Tool for Streamlining Biological Assessments under the Federal Endangered Species Act (Scott Boettcher, Cherry Creek Environmental, Inc., Olympia, WA, USA)

TT-03:  Assessing Mitigation Measures to Reduce Moose-Vehicle Collisions: A Modeling Approach (Paul Grosman, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

TT-04:  Spatiotemporal Distributions of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions and their Application for Mitigation Planning (Kari Gunson, EcoKare International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

TT-05:  Understanding and Communicating the Indirect Effects of Transportation on Land Use (Jeff Heilman and Colin McConnaha, Parametrix, Portland, OR, USA)

TT-06:  Changing Indecision into Action: A Case Study on Successful Interagency Cooperation to Benefit the Natural Environment – Interstate 295 / Interstate 76 / NJ Route 42 Interchange, Camden County, NJ (Ileana Ivanciu, Dewberry, Parsippany, NJ, USA)

TT-07:  Developing a Model for Identifying Possible Road-Kill Locations on Highways Using Indicator Species and Limited Wildlife Data. (Parag Khatavkar, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands)

TT-08:  TDOT's Early Environmental Screening Process (Benjamin Richards, Tennessee DOT, Nashville, TN, USA)

#1 - North Shore National Scenic Byway
Buses depart promptly at 9:30am

For over 30 years the Duluth District of Mn/DOT has been planning, designing and reconstructing US Highway 61 along the ecologically sensitive and scenic North Shore of Lake Superior. This field trip will drive through both urban and rural completed Mn/DOT projects on US 61 and the I-35 interstate highway, while showcasing the North Shore's natural beauty (mid-September begins the Autumn color season). Tour stops will include the Silver Cliff tunnel (avoidance of severe rock cut and shoreline impact), reconstruction through Gooseberry River State Park (preservation and enhancement of natural and cultural resources) and Palisade Creek bridge and wildlife crossing (endangered Canada Lynx). The I-35 reconstruction also involved using cut rock to create a lake trout spawning reef just off Duluth -- this will be discussed during the drive.

#2 - Aquatic Habitat Reconstruction Tour
Buses depart promptly at 9:30am

Minnesota State Highway 33 was expanded from two to four lanes in the late 1980's through the White Pine River valley. Alternative selection faced conflicting ecological and regulatory trade-offs. A decision was made to stay on the existing alignment and relocate/reconstruct a portion of the White Pine River (trout stream). This field trip will examine the relocation of a stream segment back into its original channel and habitat improvement structures installed during the project. The tour will also visit the Miller Hill area of Duluth where urbanization and an active highway construction project, in its final stages, are addressing the protection and enhancement of the Miller Creek headwaters (trout stream). Depending on travel time, the route for this tour may take you along the Skyline Parkway Scenic Byway and Hawk Ridge.

"Division Street" Documentary Film Screening
Moderator: Trisha White, Habitat & Highways Campaign Director, Defenders of Wildlife
Division Street Web Site

ICOETSteering Committee Business Meeting (by invitation)